Art Blog Post of the Day: “What do you get when you mix religious overtones, memories of a few former vegan college roommates, comic book-inspired heroes and elegant ballerinas prancing around the stage in funny costumes? . . . a lot of conflicting clichés: archetypal values with a bit of a focus on flesh, eggs, and orifices.”

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Dana-Thomas house, in Springfield, Ill., to be shuttered due to budget cuts.

In case you needed more excuses to be a daytime drinker: “We all know the expression ‘the night is young,’ but with happy hour that idea is bullshit. Not only is the night not young, it hasn’t even been born yet. Happy hour is the fetal stage of the night: so why not get the party started at the moment of conception?“